In my previous post I talked about the difference in being a true rock star and being a rock star in the rock star video game.

In this post I am going to show you the difference!

As I mentioned before the main difference is a true rock star learns the chords necessary to become a rock star and the video game rock star just pushed the buttons and pretends.

This is a lot like internet marketing. There are a ton of people out there that have never made a penny on the internet telling you how to make money.

Does that make any sense to you?

Now I have found a couple of videos on YouTube that shows the difference between knowing the chords and trying to be a rock star by pushing buttons.

First watch this video…

Now watch the magic button version.

You should quickly see the difference!

Did you see the difference?

Being a rock star blogger is exactly like this. If you learn the basics and take the time to develop yourself you can be a rock star blogger.

If you run around looking for the magic button that will instantly make you a rock star blogger without doing any work you will end up as a champ in the Rock Star Blogger Video Game!

I don’t consider myself a rock star blogger, I know how to make money with a blog (or two or three or a dozen) but I have never developed the huge blogging site that has tens of thousands of visitors per day, at least not yet. But I am on the road to it. I have a number of blogs that average over 200 visitors per day that were created with little work once I knew the basics.

Anyone that wants to do this can do this! But it does take time and knowledge.

You need to make up your mind! Do you want to be the Rock Star that knows the chords or do you want to be like the ones that think just pushing a button will make them a rock star?

If you are willing to put in the effort a blogging course like the one we offer at Blogging Beginners is a great way for you to get the ball rolling.

Everybody wants to have a Rock Star blog. You know the type of blog where everybody comes screaming to see what you have to offer and they throw money at you left and right.

The problem is that most people use the Rock Star video game as their technique.

What do I mean by this?

First you have to understand what the Rock Star Video game is.

Just in case you are one of the few that hasn’t seen an advertisement for the Rock Star Video game, it is a game where you pretend to know what you are doing but you just push buttons instead of actually learning what you need to know to be a Rock Star.

Everybody wants to be a Rock Star but nobody wants to learn the chords.

The true Rock Stars and the true Rock Star Bloggers either know the chords or they have a team of people that handle the chords for them.

If you don’t have a team or if you don’t have the money for a team you have to know what you are doing to get to the top.

Even if you they have a team you will see that most of the top players still know what it takes to get to the top and still know how to do it themselves if they need to.

Just pushing a button and instantly becoming successful would be great and belief in pushing a button to become a Rock Star is what robs a lot of people of time and money.

They buy into the hype on the sales pages and the emails and pour out their money and waste their time trying to be a Rock Star without knowing the cords.

Yes, you can be successful in your own mind and in your living room but when it comes to the real world, THERE IS NO MAGIC BUTTON.

You have to learn what you need to do to be successful and most people don’t want to learn because it is hard and takes an effort. It is much easier to throw money at a useless magic button then it is too actually take action and do something to help you succeed.

Do you want to know a secret? Most of what you need to learn isn’t that hard, once you have actually tried it and done it once or twice you will usually understand it but it does take an effort.

Sites like our Blogging Beginners site will show you everything you need to know to start your Rock Star career but we don’t tell you that you will make a ton of money because we know that a vast majority of the people won’t take the actions necessary to generate income. Instead they will be looking for that nonexistent magic button to push.

To succeed online you need to learn what you need to learn and take action with the knowledge you have. You would be amazed at how easy it is once you actually make just a little effort.

The biggest Rock Stars in the world started by learning a single chord and expanding from there. You don’t start at the top start with something you can afford and when you start to make some money use that to expand your education or your business or both, since your knowledge can increase your income.

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous blogging or to take arms against a sea of niche bloggers, and by opposing conquer them?

OK, that is enough of my poor paraphrasing of William Shakespeare.

This is as you might have guessed about blogging for profits or just blogging for attention or to get the word out about something special to you or just blogging to vent.

The real question is should you use a free blogging service or spend a little money and set up your own blog on your own domain?

The answer to this question, as with almost all internet marketing questions, is “It Depends”.

If all you are doing is providing your personal opinion about celebrities, politics, your personal life, what your group or organization is doing and not actively seeking to make money with your blog. You will do find with the free blogging services like Blogger.com or WordPress.com

If you are planning on doing blog marketing to create a profitable blog you should really look at this as running your own business and this means you will have to spend a little money.

How many of you actually believe you can run your own business without spending any money?

Seriously, if you try to start a business offline you better have thousands of dollars and a good line of credit.

To start a business online, especially with a blog, is a fraction of the cost of starting an offline business.

For under $50 per month (a high estimate here) you can get your own business up and running online. What offline business can you run for $50 per month?

I told you that $50 per month was a high estimate and what does that include?

• Domain Name= $0.83 per month (based on $10.00 per year)
• Hosting = $10.00 per month. Yes, you can get it cheaper but this is for a reliable hosting account with room to expand and no additional cost.
• Autoresponder = $20.00 per month. This is the best way to stay in contact with you customers and potential customers, without getting your site shut down for spamming.

As you can see that comes up to $30.83 per month and the autoresponder is optional (though highly recommended) when you are first starting out. The $20 that is left over from the $50 estimate can be used for other things like education and advertising.

There are other expenses that you will have but I am guessing you already have those expenses, such as; a computer, internet access and an email account.

Why do you want to set up your blog on its own domain?

The answer to that is because it will make it much easier for you to turn up high in the search engines and get traffic to your site.

With blogs, particularly WordPress blogs, you have these things called plugins that you can easily install that will optimize your blog for the search engines, set up RSS feeds, allow others to bookmark it and many, many other things.

These options are available with most of the free services.

I won’t tell you that you can’t make money with a free blogging service but I will tell you that it will take a lot more work and a lot more time to get where you want to go.

What does this boil down too? Basically, if you are planning to make money blogging you should plan it like a business and budget some money to get your business started.